[Typo3] how do extensions authors catch up with core updates?
Bing Du
du_bing at hotmail.com
Thu May 5 16:32:46 CEST 2005
Thanks folks for your information that has given me peace of mind.
Bing
Bernhard Kraft wrote:
> Bing Du wrote:
>
>> Coming from Mambo (another very popular CMS) and working on Typo3 now
>> with a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1. How often does Typo3 core upgrade?
>> 2. When Typo3 core upgrades, how fast can extensions authors catch up?
>>
>> I'm asking that because in our experience with Mambo, whenever its
>> core upgraded, if the authors of Mambo's 3rd party components/modules
>> do not caught up, our site just got stuck.
>
>
> Typo3 core gets updated every 6-12 months. At least the last ones.
>
> Normally the T3 core stays downward compatible. That means that at least
> for some
> version numbers every feature will be availbale. This gives the
> extension authors
> some time to change theier coding to newer concepts.
>
> When a feature comes outdated like the old "language split" fields then
> they will be
> removed some time (which becoes true for the language split feature in
> some time).
>
>
> greets,
> Bernhard
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